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10,469,646 Patented Feb. 16, 1692.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

oscAR MARTIRI, or BERLIN, GERMANY.

ROTARY PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 469,046, dated February 16, 1892.

Application iiled September 29, 18,91. Serial No. Ll07,ll2, (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, OSCAR MARTE, director, of Berlimin the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Rotating Plow, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a plow savingconsiderable power and'eifecting the even distribution or deposition of the soil which has been plowed up, for which purposes the plow is provided with adjustable dished plates or shovels behind the shares of the plow, so as to take up the soil fed by the shares and to turn and disintegrate the same, afterward placing it in the open furrows.

In the accompanying drawings I illustrate aplow constructed according to my invention.

Figure I is a side elevation. Fig. II is a rear view, and Fig. III is a plan view of the Same.

. ver c so that the wrought-iron frame e and the shares f are lowered according to the depth to which the soil is to be worked. The

frame e is further provided with the sleeves e', situated obliquely to the frame and forming the bearings for the pivots of dished plates or disintegrating-wheels h. One of these dished plates is provided behind each share. These dished plates h are provided with ribs m, by means of which they are I'o-V tated through making contact with the ground `when the plow is propelled. At the same time been taken off after removing the pin l and the shares have been adjusted to the desired height, the plow is propelled forward. The shares f out the soil at right angles and push it toward the dished plates h, where the soil is disintegrated, turned over, and thrown sidewise into the open furrow.

By the above-described Aarrangement of the rotary dished plates h little power is required to place the soil into the open furrow in the most suitable manner, as the soil is thus fed systematically by the rotation ot' the dished plates h, the force exerted having only to overcome the slight friction between the sleeves e' and the pivots of the plates h. These plows maybe adapted to any soil or ground, and though they may be used very advantageously for plowing the soil at less or greater depth the advantages are particularly apparent in the latter case.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

A rotary plow characterized by the arrangement behind the share or shares of one or more adjustable dished plates with ribs or shovels which take up the soil, turn over and disintegrate the same, and place it sidewise in the open furrows for the purposes of sav- 'ing power and effecting an even distribution of soil thrown up, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR MARTH.

lVitnesses:

PAUL FISCHER, FRIEDR. HOLUNG. 

